Around the World in eighty days
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- Title
- Around the World in eighty days
- Language
- English
- Source
- The Cabletow Volume XXXIX (Issue No. 3) September 1963
- Year
- 1963
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- Around The World In Eighty Days So the song and story go, but to the Laconicos, Mrs. Dolores A. and her two daughters, Dolores II and Leticia, it is a fact. They left Manila on June 12 and arrived on August 30 on a trip that was both educational and official. Mrs. Laconico attended a series of training schools, conferences, and convenventions in relation to Girl Scouting and Jobs Daughters. First long stop for Mrs. Laconico was Nybord, Denmark where she stayed some two weeks to attend training and conferences on Girl Scouting. While she was in at tendance there, her daughters toured Hong Kong, Israel, Greece, Rome, Mad rid, Munich and Zurich until they reached her in Denmark. From Denmark, the party went to London where Mrs. Laconico attended a Girl Scout Con ference and then they left for New York in late July to attend the Edith Macy Training School for Girl Scouters. Mrs. Laconico and Leticia were most of that time in Pleasantville, New York, to take the training while Dolores II commuted to Ithaca, New York, to audit some of the summer classes in an imal husbandry in Cornel University. Before mid-August, the three left for Lincoln, Nebraska to attend the annual session of the Supreme Council of Job's Daughters which lasted from August 14 to 17. In Lincoln, Nebraska, III. Bro. Joseph W. Seacrest, SGIG for Nebraska of the Supreme Council of A. & A. S. R. Southern Jurisdiction, paid them a call at their hotel. Bro. Seacrest is President of the Federal Reserve Bank in that city, publisher of the Nebraska Times, and holds other prominent positions in business and social circles. He is a personal friend of Bro. Roman B. Ramos, PM of Palma Lodge No. 147 and present Associate Guardian of Bethel No. 2. The Laconicos were also feted by the Girl Scout Council in Lincoln. They also visited the Lodge Hall in Omaha, Nebraska when lhe Order of Job s Daughter was first organized in 1921. After the Supreme Session, Mrs. La<conico and daughter Leticia returned to the Philippines while Dolores II re mained in San Francisco to do intensive observation in dairy farming at the Davis Agricultural College, a part of the University of California, L A. Advertise In The CABLETOW It Pays! September 1963 105